Kudos to my friend and colleague Bill McGarvey over at BustedHalo for snagging an interview with author Richard Russo I m a big fan of Russo who is one of the funniest writers around Straight Man made me laugh as much as Lucky Jim Well almost as much Perceptive readers of Russo s fic

If you haven t done so already be sure to check out editor in chief Drew Christiansen s discussion of The Stillborn God with sociologist Jose Casanova Mark Lilla s new books has received a number of approving reviews and was excerpted on the cover of the New York Times magazine But both

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This Sunday is the twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time In his reflection Father Daniel Harrington writes about the subject of money and God in Luke s gospel The words money and spirituality are seldom found in the same sentence Yet Luke and other biblical writers give a good deal

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This Sunday is the 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Fr Daniel Harrington writes about the notion of universalism which was often debated by the Jewish leaders of Jesus time As a theological doctrine universalism claims that all of us will be saved or restored to holiness and happiness The bib

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This Sunday is the 20th in Ordinary Time Fr Daniel Harrington writes that Luke s Gospel reading presents three initially puzzling sayings of Jesus He proclaims that he has come to light a fire on earth to undergo a baptism of death and to bring division rather than peace What happened to an

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